"Don't you sometimes feel dreadfully _jealous_ of
her?"

"I? God bless my soul, _no!"_ But a very sweet
smile, a smile she had not seen shed on her for many,
many years, lit up his face. "We'll have to think
more of one another, and less of the boy -- eh, my
dear?"

Lady Blake was too surprised to speak -- and so, for
once doing the wise thing, she remained silent.

Rose, hurrying out a moment later, saw that the
open air had already done them both good.

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